The last leg of my trip is to Barcelona for three days, whence to Paris by TGV.
The instructions for finding my hostal – which is not a hostel, but a small hotel occupying one or two floors in a larger building – gave the address and said "first floor". Good news, as I have two suitcases.
The first problem was that there is no sign on the street to show the name of the establishment. A helpful person leaving the building confirmed I was in the right place. Next I hauled my two cases up the stairs to the first floor, dripping sweat all the way. Except the first floor up is called entresol not "first floor". So I huffed and puffed up to the next level, which is called principal. The next one up – that's street level plus three – is the primera planta or "first floor".
Of course, this is not consistent; the next place I went to had no principal, so the first floor was only on the second floor, not the third floor. Are you following?
The instructions for finding my hostal – which is not a hostel, but a small hotel occupying one or two floors in a larger building – gave the address and said "first floor". Good news, as I have two suitcases.
The first problem was that there is no sign on the street to show the name of the establishment. A helpful person leaving the building confirmed I was in the right place. Next I hauled my two cases up the stairs to the first floor, dripping sweat all the way. Except the first floor up is called entresol not "first floor". So I huffed and puffed up to the next level, which is called principal. The next one up – that's street level plus three – is the primera planta or "first floor".
Of course, this is not consistent; the next place I went to had no principal, so the first floor was only on the second floor, not the third floor. Are you following?
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